Black Raspberry plant named &#39;OHIO&#39;S TREASURE&#39;

ABSTRACT

A new and distinct cultivar of primocane and floricane fruiting black raspberry plant ‘Ohio&#39;s Treasure’. The new cultivar fruits from normal overwintered floricane buds, on primocanes, and from late spring, long, basal, floricane trusses which result in good productivity over a particularly long harvest season.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar ofprimocane and floricane fruiting black raspberry variety. The newcultivar is distinguished from other black raspberry cultivars by itsability to fruit on primocanes and late spring, long, basal, floricanetrusses, which result in good productivity over a particularly longharvest season. ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit is not firm enough to ship,therefore, ‘Ohio's Treasure’ is suitable to extend the black raspberryseason for homeowners and local marketing channels.

DESCRIPTION OF RELATED PRIOR ART

Several wild selections of primocane fruiting (commonly known as “fallbearing”) black raspberry have been found and named, including ‘OhioEverbearing’ (unpatented). These are unimproved and generally reportedto be small fruited and low yielding. ‘Black Knight’ black raspberry(unpatented), has been named and is useful in extending the season byproducing late spring or early summer fruit on long basal trusses whichripen later. As these canes arise from the base of the floricane and donot extend the season into the fall, ‘Black Knight’ is not truly aprimocane fruiting black raspberry. Only one other improved cultivar offall fruiting black raspberry is known, ‘Explorer’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No.17,727).

The new and distinct cultivar of the present invention is a raspberryplant named ‘Ohio's Treasure’. Both ‘Ohio's Treasure’ and ‘Explorer’produce fruit from true primocanes in the fall, unlike ‘Black Knight’.‘Ohio's Treasure’ differs from ‘Explorer’ in that ‘Ohio's Treasure’fruit also arise from large basal floricane fruiting trusses, such asoccurs on ‘Black Knight’. ‘Explorer’ is the result of hybridizing wildblack raspberries with primocane fruiting habits. Like its wildprogenitors, ‘Explorer’ fruit is relatively small compared to somecommercial floricane fruiting cultivars such as ‘Jewel’ (unpatented) and‘Dundee’ (unpatented). ‘Ohio's Treasure’ is the result of crossingrelatively larger fall bearing red raspberries with black raspberrycharacteristics, round fruit with dark color, with black raspberrycultivars with a tendency to produce large basal floricane trusses.Selfed seed from ‘Ohio's Treasure’ may therefore produce purple-blackfruit, unlike ‘Explorer’ selfed seed which should only produce blackfruited seedlings. As there have been informal reports of self sterilityin ‘Explorer’ plants, eliminating the possibility of selfed seed,crosses of ‘Explorer’ with other black raspberry cultivars should onlyproduce black raspberry seedlings.

SUMMARY OF THE CULTIVAR

The following is a summary of a new and distinct black fruited,primocane and floricane fruiting, raspberry cultivar, botanically knownas Rubus occidentalis L. The following characteristics are outstanding:

1. Production of black raspberry fruit sequentially from normalfloricane trusses, then longer, later spring, basal floricane trusses,and finally unpruned and then pruned primocanes. This produced anextended season of harvest, from June 27 to October 11 in pot culture intunnels, with only a two week cropping hiatus in early August.

2. Compared to the only other patented primocane fruiting blackraspberry cultivar, ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit is over 25% heavier.

3. ‘Ohio's Treasure’ canes are more productive than the other fallfruiting black raspberry, producing 2.05 lbs of fruit per plant, similarto the leading commercial cultivar, ‘Jewel’, which only produces fruiton floricanes.

4. ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit is black and has the fruit shape, aroma andflavor of black raspberries. ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit is relatively soft,but it separates from its receptacle early and completely, allowingunripe fruit picking and extra days of storage, some transport and thepossibility of mechanical harvest for processing.

These characteristics make ‘Ohio's Treasure’ suitable as a summer andfall fruiting variety for direct or farm marketed fruit growers andhomeowners. ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit are considered too small and softfor long term storage or commercial fresh market shipping. In coolerareas with less than 2500growing degree days (base 50° F.), ‘Ohio'sTreasure’ primocane fruit ripens in mid-August and, with mid-summertopping, through September, making it sufficiently early to use as aprimocane bearer for almost all agricultural regions in the UnitedStates. Although the chill requirement for ‘Ohio's Treasure’ was notdirectly measured, all other black raspberries have chill hourrequirements over 1200 hours. Therefore, no recommendation is made forthe adaptation of ‘Ohio's Treasure’ in low chilling areas. Some fallbearing red raspberries are used commercially in low chill areas as theydo not need to have chilled floricanes to produce a crop. Floricanes of‘Ohio's Treasure’ have survived exposure of −16F (−27C) while dormant.

ORIGIN OF THE NEW CULTIVAR

The new cultivar of fall bearing black raspberry originated from acontrolled cross performed at Oakland, Md. The cross, designated: “AL”,was ‘Dundee’ (unpatented)×XEF-o1 (unpatented) and was made in the winterof 2006. ‘Dundee’ is a floricane fruiting black raspberry selection withseveral interesting fruit quality attributes, including fruit size andreasonable fruit firmness. It also has a tendency to produce basalflower buds which produce long flower trusses on the basal 5 inches of afloricane. These trusses produce larger fruit later than the moreapical, and shorter, floricane trusses. These basal trusses aredifferent from true primocane fruiting laterals or canes in season ofharvest and fruit size. XEF-o1 is a floricane and primocane fruitingpurple fruited cultivar from a black raspberry×red raspberry cross withseveral desirable fruit attributes: dark color and round fruit similarto black raspberries, fruit weight of over 3 grams in Ohio, and veryhigh yields, especially on primocanes. The cross was made to produce around fruited primocane bearing black raspberry type to further extendthe black raspberry harvest season with two additional fruiting seasons.

XEF-o1 is a cross of TAN-u1black raspberry selection (unpatented) madein Upper Marlboro, Md. and ‘Josephine’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,173).TAN-u1 is a cross of ‘Jewel’ black raspberry (unpatented)×PAO-f1(unpatented), a dark fruited fall bearing raspberry selection made inCream Ridge, N.J. Like ‘Dundee’, its progeny, ‘Jewel’ also produces longbasal floricane trusses with large fruit. PAO-f1 contains the darkfruited ‘Caroline’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,412) and round fruited‘Southland’ (unpatented) fall bearing red raspberries.

The year of crossing was designated “A” as part of the Five AcesBreeding Certified Raspberry Breeding Program in Oakland, Md. The seedfrom this cross was germinated and grown to transplant size. Theseedlings were transported to a Raspberry Farm outside Wilmington, Ohioand planted in the field in May, 2007. The present invention was thirdseedling of the “AAL” progeny selected in August, 2008 and was thereforedesignated “-o3”. Thus, the complete breeding designation of ‘Ohio'sTreasure’ is “AAL-o3”.

ASEXUAL PROPAGATION OF THE VARIETY

‘Ohio's Treasure’ has been asexually propagated by tissue culture inOakland, Md. and by rooted vegetative primocane nodes from 2010 topresent. No off-type plants have been observed in the history of asexualpropagation of this cultivar by either method and fall bearingcharacteristics occurs normally on propagated plants. Tissue cultureshoots readily establish in culture and branching is easier to stimulatethan with other black raspberry cultivars.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The accompanying photographs show typical characteristics of the newvariety, all color plate references are from The Royal HorticulturalSociety (“R.H.S.”), London, UK SW1P 2PE, 4^(th) edition, 2001, ColourPlates:

FIG. 1. shows a long floricane truss which arose from a basal bud of‘Ohio's Treasure’ with leaves removed to show the distribution ofimmature fruit, cane waxiness, and the color, size and pattern of thornsduring the growing season.

FIG. 2. shows a vegetative “rat tail” cane tip with its more needle-likethorns in October.

FIG. 3. shows the apical section of a primocane fruiting cluster of‘Ohio's Treasure’, showing the exposure of ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit asgrown in an unheated tunnel. The distance from the left to right marginof the illustration is 4 feet.

FIG. 4. shows the progression of ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit ripening fromflowering to overripe (far right). The colors of the fruit when comparedto the R.H.S. Colour Plates are: the green color fruit in the second andthird fruit from the left (145B) the partially red fruit (44A), theblack purple fruit third from the right (186A and 186B) and the glossyblack (ripe) and dull black (over ripe) fruit (202A) on the right.

FIG. 5. shows the original ‘Ohio's Treasure’ plant at the time ofdiscovery with several primocane trusses in the field.

FIG. 6. shows the purple black color of unripe, but harvestable ‘Ohio'sTreasure’ fruit and RHS Colour Plate No. N186A and B, and the black ripefruit near RHS Colour Plate No. 202.

Colors in the drawings are only approximated, in cases where the colorsin the drawings differ from the R.H.S. color designation given herein,the R.H.S. designation should be considered the most accurate.

DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW CULTIVAR

The following is a detailed description of ‘Ohio's Treasure’, includingfruit production, together with the cultivar's morphologicalcharacteristics. ‘Ohio's Treasure’ is a species hybrid, which contains apredominance of Rubus occidentalis L. genetic background and traits andwould be botanically classified in that species commonly referred to asblack raspberries. The description is based on information from plantsgrown in the greenhouses at Oakland, Md. or the breeding field inWilmington, Ohio.

Cane Types Based on Floral Pattern: ‘Ohio's Treasure’ produces onlycrown suckers (=canes or shoots) and average 8.5 new canes per plant inthe second year and beyond. During the growing season, all trusses andcanes are light green colored (RHS Colour Plate No. 191C). Canes have astrong waxy coating (FIGS. 1, 2 and 3) which is easily removed withfinger contact. Depending on plant vigor, half of the canes branch thefirst year after planting and are semi-erect and readily branch by thesecond year of a plant's growth. In the second year, four types of canesare observed.

1. For a vegetative cane which terminates in a “rat tail” suitable fortip layering (FIG. 2), total node number per cane averages 89 for secondyear plants; cane length averages 265 cm. Two spines on average occur oneach midcane node, or 20 spines per 30 cm. Spines are more numerous andreduced in size on the apical rat tail section of vegetative canes. Eachcane produce mid cane branches 5 times on average. No fruit are producedon these primocanes during the first year.

2. For basal floricane trusses, total node number averages 35, with 16.5of the nodes bearing flowers and fruit, truss length averages 92.7 cm.(FIG. 1). Number of thorns per node average 3.5 or 42 per 30 cm of cane.Long basal floricane trusses average 4 short branches which can beconsidered as part of the floral truss. On average 52.8 fruit areproduced per basal floricane truss.

3. For an unpruned primocane that is terminated by a flower cluster, onaverage, total node number per cane is 46, with 33 of the basal nodesstaying vegetative and the top 13 nodes bearing flowers and fruit (FIG.3). Total length of fruiting primocane canes averages 141 cm. Number ofthorns per node are 1.5 or 14.5 spines per 30 cm of cane. Unpruned andfloral canes also produce 5 branches. On average, 86.5 fruit areproduced per unpruned primocane.

4. For pruned (apex removed) primocane laterals terminated by flowers,fruit is borne on lateral branches which arise from axillary buds. Thetotal node number per lateral is, on average, 26, with 7.5 nodesproducing flowers and fruit. Primocane lateral length averages 41 cm.Number of thorns per node average 3.3 or 63 thorns per 30 cm of cane.Primocane lateral branches average 0.8 secondary lateral branches. Onaverage, each lateral produces 22.7 fruit.

For all buds not used in the first year of primocane growth forproduction of fruit, typical black raspberry floricane trusses form.These trusses average 36.6 cm in length and 15.1 nodes, of which, themost apical 4.3 nodes on average produce fruit. Fruit per truss averages9.4.

Main cane diameter at the 30 cm height averages 1.0 cm. Canes aregenerally semi erect. Cane coloration on all canes during the growingseason is light greyed-green, reminiscent of RHS Colour Plate No 191C.Canes develop their normal woody color in the fall changing from greento the red blush color (RHS Colour Plate No. 61A) then to dark purple(RHS Colour Plate No.N77A). Finally, canes develop a dark violet blue(RHS Colour Plate No. 97C to N186C or 187A) at their typical cane deathafter flowering.

Thorn shape is typical of black raspberry, stout, with a winged basenarrowing apically to a thin needle which is slightly basal pointing(FIGS. 1 and 3). A full sized thorn length is approximately 3 mm.‘Ohio's Treasure’ thorn color is similar to the cane greyed-green colorduring the early growing season (RHS Colour Plate No. 191C). By the lastmonths of the growing season, base of the thorn darkens to red, thenviolet red (RHS Colour Plate Nos. N77A and N77B). The tip of the thornbecomes brown (RHS Colour Plate No. 177C). A similar pattern occurs withlateral buds, which turn green to red violet (RHS Colour Plate Nos. 77Aand 77B) and are typical in size and shape of the species. No secondarybuds were observed on ‘Ohio's Treasure’.

The lower surface of all ‘Ohio's Treasure’ leaves is pubescentgrey-green resembling RHS Colour Plate No. 191B and 191C. The uppersurfaces of both primocane leaves are medium green, most closely in hueto RHS Colour Plate No. 137A and 137B, depending on the amount of Nfertilization and time of season. Senescing leaves have a green yellowcolor resembling RHS Colour Plate No. 146A. Fall coloration includes redinterveinal areas (RHS Colour Plate No. 61A). Leaves abscise readily inOctober and November. Petioles, petiolules and major veins are waxy andsimilar in color to the undersurface of the leaves, RHS Colour Plate No.191C.

Vigorous plants have leaves that are greater than 98% trifoliolate, withonly an occasional monofoliolate leaf in the apex of a fruiting cluster,among the fruit. The trifoliolate terminal leaflet is, on average, 4.7cm. wide and 8.1 cm. long on floricane trusses and 6.2 cm wide and 9 cm.long on primocane trusses. The trifoliolate maximum leaf width, measuredfrom apex of the lateral leaflet to the opposite lateral leaflet apexis, on average, 12.9 cm. on floricane trusses and 15.0 cm on primocanes.The width of the basal lateral leaflet for trifoliolate floricane trussand primocane leaves averaged 3.4 cm and 4.1 cm., respectively. Leafsize is smaller at the cane tips in fruiting clusters and on rat tailswhere the length of a monofoliolate leaf averages 5.8 cm in length and1.8 cm in width.

The trifoliolate leaf petiole and petiolule lengths averaged 2.6 cm. and1.1 cm. respectively on floricanes and 3.7 cm. and 1.8 cm on largerprimocane leaves. Petioles, petiolules and leaf veins have a similarcolor to the midseason primocane (RHS Colour Plate No. 191C). Petioleshave between 2 and 4 reduced size thorns, with 1 or 2 very reducedsized, more needle-like thorns occurring on the leaf midrib. Lateralleaflets are sessile and join at the petiole apex with the apical leafpetiolule. Leaf serration is relatively simple sawtooth with uneven“teeth” size. Leaves have moderate laminar puckering and veinationpattern are common for most cultivars of black raspberry and cannot beused to distinguish this cultivar. Leaf veins are moderately pronouncedon the undersurface of the leaf, with less than 20% of the circumferenceburied in the leaf lamina. Leaf stipules are bladelike, less than a mmin width, and 0.4 cm in length on floricane leaves but 0.8 cm long onlarger primocane leaves.

The unscented flower morphology and early fruit morphology is typical ofmost black raspberry cultivars, having five white (RHS Colour Plate No.155D) petals that average 0.7 to 0.9 cm. long, 0.3 to 0.4 cm. wide;petals abscise after pollination. Basal floricane long trussesoccasionally have flowers with 6 to 9 petals. Flowers have five 0.7 to0.9 cm. long, 0.3 to 0.4 cm. wide at the base triangular grey greensepals (RHS Colour Plate No. 191C) on green peduncles (RHS Colour PlateNo. 194B) which are less waxy than the rest of the cane and itsattachments (FIG. 1). The internal sepal surfaces have two very thinstripes of pubescence running along their outside length.

Mid season floricane flowers have on average 43 pistils on midseasonfruit and a similar number of anthers, 38.4; primocane flowers have 57.4pistils and 34.5 anthers. Both anthers and pistils seem to be functionalat fertilization; cheese cloth covered flowers on screenhouse grownplants set seed. Anther, anther filament and pistil color is similar toRHS Colour Plate Nos. 160C, 160D and 144D, respectively; none of thesetraits can be used to identify ‘Ohio's Treasure’ (FIG. 4, left).Peduncle length is 1.5 cm. with an average of 21.1 thorns per peduncle.

Floricane flower trusses are typical determinate umbiliform cymeclusters, with most fruit clustered at the truss apex; typically 4 ofthe nodes produce flowers. Primocane flower trusses are more racimiform,with fruiting extending 13 nodes down the main cane and sometimes borneon short laterals with reduced leaves (FIG. 3). A typical (unpruned)primocane fruited cluster had the following number of fruit per nodestarting at the apex: 5, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 6, 5, 5, 3, 1followed by barren buds to the base of the cane, which are capable offruiting after winter chilling. For each node which produces a branchwith leafs, or branched peduncle with reduced leaves, the apical flowerripens first, as occurs in determinate cyme flower structures.

FRUIT PRODUCTION

As a result of the 4 types of fruiting patterns possible with ‘Ohio'sTreasure’, the length of harvest season can be extended to 91 days ofharvest over 105 calendar days. In overwintered pots in tunnels inwestern Maryland (2900 ft elevation), floricane trusses from chilledbuds begin to ripen on June 27^(th), are midseason (50% harvest) on July8^(th) and stop fruiting on July 14^(th). Fruit weight averages 1.7grams and overall yield is 437 grams per plant. Basal floricane longtrusses commence harvest on July 16^(th), are midseason on July 26^(th)and stop fruiting on August 1^(st). Fruit weight averages 1.9 grams andoverall yield is 184 grams per plant. Primocane fruiting starts onunpruned canes and ends on pruned (summer topped) canes. The firstunpruned cane harvest starts on August 16^(th), is midseason on August21^(st) and stops fruiting on September 5^(th); fruit weight averaged1.8 grams (FIG. 7). Cut or summer topped primocanes start fruiting onSeptember 12^(th), are midseason on September 20^(th) and stop fruitingon October 11^(th); fruit weight averaged 2.1 grams. October harvest isnot particularly large in western Maryland as frost is common in lateSeptember. Unripe fruit was wasted, however no attempt was made atmeasuring cold damaged, unripe, fruit. Over the year, total per plantyield was 930.3 grams and average fruit weight (total weight ofharvest/total number of fruit) over the whole season was 1.9 grams.

The season gap between the end of the floricane and basal floricane cropand the beginning of this primocane crop is 14 days, compared to 39 daysfor the early red raspberry spring and fall fruiting cultivar ‘Jaclyn’(U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,647) ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit size and weight aremoderate, but relatively consistent through the season, perhaps largerin the fall because of the cooler temperatures or natural anatomy andbehavior of the different fruiting structures. For average fruit of 1.9grams, fruit length (base to apex) is 1.34 cm and fruit width is 1.83cm., making the shape of ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit round and somewhatsquat (FIG. 6). The receptacle cavity averages 0.83 cm. Thus, the fruitwidth to receptacle cavity is 45% of the fruit diameter, similar to theround fruited red raspberry, ‘Josephine’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 12,173,which has a cavity 40% of the fruit diameter. For this sample, averagenumber of formed drupelets was 57.4 and average number of aborted(undeveloped) drupelets was 3.4 per fruit. Thus, drupelet set was 94%.The uneven appearance of ‘Ohio's Treasure’ is not evidently due toaborted drupelets. XEF-o1, a parent of ‘Ohio's Treasure’ exhibited asimilar tendency toward uneven drupelet formation, therefore a geneticcause for this appearance is possible. Average drupelet weight was 33mg, which was consistent over fruit from 1.0 to 2.6 grams in weight.

‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit are black (RHS Colour Plate No. 202A) (FIGS. 4,5 and 6), cohesive, and under normal circumstances, the fruit does notshatter under pressure of hand harvest. Except when temperatures fallinto the 50°'s during the day, slightly unripe fruit is pickable whenpurple black (RHS Colour Plate No. 186A). The texture of the fruit isrelatively softer than other commercially grown eastern US-grown blackraspberry cultivars known to us, reminiscent of older black raspberryvarieties. Ripe fruit progresses from glossy to dull at overripe,typical of the species (FIG. 4).

PEST AND DISEASE RESISTANCE

No reaction has been noted to black raspberry pests, as the test plantshave been grown in tunnels, with lower disease and insect incidence.Field grown plants are free of orange rust, but an insufficient amountof time has passed to determine whether there is a practical resistanceto this fungus from the immune red raspberry parents used. Fruit isusually free from Botrytis rot in the tunnel, but field grown plants,fruit rot can develop. Mildew infestation in the tunnel has not beensubstantial, requiring no sprays for control.

DIFFERENCE FROM OTHER BLACK RASPBERRY

The following characteristics are useful in distinguishing ‘Ohio'sTreasure’ from other cultivars and can be useful for cultivaridentification. Plants used for these observations were grown inuncrowded pots in clear plastic unshaded tunnels or greenhouses.

1. When cane density is below 9 canes per pot on plants at least twoyears old, ‘Ohio's Treasure’ plants produce fruit on unused overwinteredbuds on floricanes, either late fruiting long basal trusses or typicalblack raspberry trusses that arise from more apical buds. Unlikecommercially available black raspberry cultivars, ‘Ohio's Treasure’ willalso produce fruit later on primocanes which terminate in flowerclusters either as a main cane and cane branches or as forced branchesfrom summer pruned primocanes. This combination of fruiting sitesresults in harvest over 91 days, compared to less than a month forfloricane fruiting cultivars.

2. For non-pruned primocanes, fruit appear on average at the 34^(th)node from the base of the plant. If the main cane is topped, or the apexremoved by pruning, the lateral branches grow, on average, 18 nodesbefore flowering. By comparison, ‘Jaclyn’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,647),‘Marcianna’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 21,007), ‘Caroline’ (U.S. Plant Pat.No. 10,412) and ‘Heritage’ (unpatented) produce red raspberry fruit onprimocanes, on average, at the 15^(th), 24^(th), 25^(th) and 29^(th)nodes, respectively. Although no data was presented on the location ofthe first node that produces fruit on ‘Explorer’ primocanes, fruiting‘Explorer’ plants were reported to be shorter than ‘Ohio's Treasure’plants although the observations were made in very different climates.

3. ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit is larger than ‘Explorer’ and similar orsuperior in weight to all other black raspberry cultivars except ‘Jewel’(unpatented), ‘Black Hawk’ (unpatented) and ‘Dundee’ (unpatented).

4. Unlike all the other cultivars, larger ‘Ohio's Treasure’ fruit arenot smooth, having an uneven appearance because of mismatched drupeletsize. This lack of smoothness is probably genetic in nature; XEF-o1, aparent, has similar rough fruit. On average, less than 6% of ‘Ohio'sTreasure’ drupelets abort and fail to develop; aborted drupelet becauseof poor seed set is a major reason for uneven or crumbly fruits inRubus.

5. An identifying cane structure in R. occidentalis L. is the formationof “rat tail” growth in early fall which is used in propagation of blackraspberries through “tip layering”, the insertion of apex of a shootinto rooting medium or soil to stimulate the formation of a whole,rooted, plant. ‘Ohio's Treasure’ produces classic rat tail growth andthese structures tip layer (root) readily. In Rubus, thorn color patternand size vary by genotype, but are consistent over most environments andare typical of the variety or species. ‘Ohio's Treasure’ has thornnumber and form typical of black raspberries on its canes throughout thegrowing season, the exception being a greater amount of more needle likethorns on rat tail growth. This intermediate thorn pattern and quantityis the most reminiscent character of ‘Ohio's Thornless’ to R. idaeus L.the red raspberry. Compared to ‘Explorer’, the only other fall bearing,moderately large sized, black raspberry, ‘Ohio's Treasure’ thorns aremore numerous. Like ‘Explorer’, the number of thorns is greater in thefruit peducle.

6. Flowers on long, basal floricane flower trusses and primocane flowertruss morphology is more racimiform than then the rest of the plant andother varieties and represents a key identifying feature of ‘Ohio'sTreasure’. Flowers on these structures can have more than 5 petals

What is claimed:
 1. A new and distinct fall bearing black raspberryplant known as ‘Ohio's Treasure’ as described herein, illustrated andidentified by the characteristics set forth above.